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Glide support

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I am running an athlon 1800+, 256mb DDR, with a 32mbTNT2 (I know, i know....get a better card...blah blah) I tried all of the different types of graphics settings, and OF seemed to run best on glide......? But my card doesn't support glide!? I then updated to ver 1.2, and when I start up OF, an error message comes up saying that some file is missing and so it can not be run in glide. It then starts up normally and runs quite badly (quite jumpy)......what the hell is going on here? Can any one help??

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My bro is using Voodoo4 PCI, the only way he can play his game smoothly on his 400Mhz, 128MB, is with his settings to Glide. Of course I updated his video card, I recommend that. Other then that... lol <... I suggest getting a new card which you are planning on doing tounge.gif

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Don't use Glide unless you have a Glide emulator installed. My guess is that OFP is falling back to DirectX with software (non-hardware accelerated) rendering, which would explain the poor performance.

Install DirectX 8.1b and the current Detonator drivers from NVIDIA's website, and then select Direct3D without HW T&L as the rendering engine in the Preferences program.

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I though the Glide option was put in there for people who had problems with DX. as a kinda last resort!. not as a 'valid' option, if you know what I mean...

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No, Glide is only for videocards based on 3DFX's "Voodoo" chips.

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Thanks Mister Frag, i'll try your suggestions, but it might be a while as I only have a 56k modem........and i'm impatient.........and i procrastinate..........

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Well, the OFP CD also contains the DirectX runtime components. They aren't the latest, but good enough to play OFP with, so you may want to install those instead of downloading the latest version from Microsoft.

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